I was trying to find the right google-fu to find out if there's been any studies or compilations of which keywords (as being the things in perlfunc, primarily), are used the most.

I mean I doubt that 'sin' is used as often as 'sort', that opendir is used as often as 'open'.

Some orderings, like those, are only "simple" to surmise because the usability of the terms varies so widely.

Things that are really operators, likely, should be tallied separately, though a composite list might be of some interest -- but use of parens or '+' is probably farm more common than '**' or '&', and certainly, including ';' would hardly useful.

Anyone know of such a study (or google-term to pick it up! ;-)).

I suppose one could start with a loose ordering, like sort >= sin, sin>=atan2(?), grep>=reverse... then generate some partially ordered list using that, but that could easily become more subjective.

Anyway, ideas?... Should I have put this under meditations? ;)

In reply to meditation? Most used perl keywords by perl-diddler

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